- Chinese Language

- All Attendees Require a Ticket

- Show Lasts 2 hrs

Many remember Vincent van Gogh as a painter that created far-reaching influential paintings. At the same time, they remember him as an ill-fated artist who sold only one of his more than 2,000 works throughout his life. Unfortunately for him, many of his works only earned fame posthumously.

 

 

It is also known that the painter had a strong passion for painting, one that got out of control and drove him crazy. His insanity went so far that he once cut off his own ear and at the end of his life, shot himself.

 

The musical begins as van Gogh’s younger brother, Theo van Gogh, reminisces about his brother, telling stories from the more than 700 letters he exchanged with his sibling. In all those letters lies the painter’s life: love, loneliness, poverty and an endless passion for painting.

 

 

“Why is it that his [Vincent van Gogh’s] craziness should be something to be made fun of? Why, don’t you know that there lies a genuine earnestness in his paintings, behind the insanity?” cries the grieving brother.

 

Throughout the musical, 3D images of van Gogh’s masterpieces, such as “The Starry Night,” “Almond Blossom,” “The Bedroom” and “Sunflowers,” are projected onto the backdrop. Although there’s no transformation or movement in the stage setting itself, the 3D visual effects utilize time and space in a free and eloquent manner.

 

 

Figures in the famous paintings are given life and follow the actors. Also, some masterpieces appear on an empty, white canvas and even loom large, as if they are taking up the whole stage.

 

 

The stage is filled with sweet and dulcet melodies as the younger brother sings ballads longing for his older brother, who took his life at the age of 37, and the painter sings about his strong passion for painting, an urge that never stops, even amid a poverty- and pain-stricken life.